Steven Young: Manage business, personal debt to find success
Balancing business and personal debt can ensure financial stability, improve cash flow and safeguard your long-term financial well-being.
Opinion
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Mark Montieth: Can Purdue win it all?
It seems appropriate the Boilermakers would be playing in the final game on the same day as a total solar eclipse, given the rarity of both events.
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Counting the seconds: Timekeeper works 21 NCAA games (oh and Pacers games, too)
Randy Fishman had the best seat in the house for Monday night’s championship, located courtside and smack dab in the middle. Friends watching the game on television would have seen him just above the black line running across midcourt.
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BRACKETT: Understanding Luck’s decision
To fans, players are just parts of their favorite franchise or fantasy team. Let me remind you that we have lives to live. Families to take care of. Dreams beyond football.
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MIKE LOPRESTI: For Carmel High School, sports dynasty hits milestone
Last week, the Carmel boys golf team rolled to another championship by 17 strokes. It was the seventh state title of the school year for the giant school from the suburban beehive, whose population is now past 90,000.
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Articles
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Egg prices show market is working
The increase in price serves two vital functions.
Derek Schultz: Seth’s sensational season
Through the quarterback changes and inconsistency of the 2024 season, Irskens kept delivering each week, as his videos cumulatively generated hundreds of thousands of views.
Jalene Hahn: Read ’em or weep: Financial literacy is a must
The financial literacy rate has decreased since 2020, when it reached a peak of 52%.
Editorial: White River State Park expansion is worthy of state investment
The budget plan, which is now under consideration in the Indiana Senate, includes $15 million for the project, which will encompass about 7.5 acres on the White River’s western bank.
Nate Feltman: Food insecurity is a solvable problem
The hunger challenge among our youth and the associated health consequences affect academic performance and achievement, leading to tremendous societal costs.
Jasmin Shaheed-Young: Beyond polarization—putting kids at center of education
What we’re really talking about is a system that needs to work for all kids—no matter their background, their neighborhood or their school type. And right now, that’s not happening.
Philip Foust: Cut property taxes but avoid one-size-fits-all fix
While most cities and towns should tighten their belts, how much they can wisely cut differs because cities and towns differ.
Brandon Brown: IPS should share funding and, in doing, reinvent itself
In Indiana, state education dollars follow public school students to the schools of their choice. Local funding, however, does not.
Savannah Kerstiens: Understanding Indiana’s rising electricity rates
One common assumption is that Indiana’s reliance on coal is the main reason for rising electricity costs. However, the reality is more complex.
Randall Shepard: Let’s take campaign finance reform out of court’s hands
A group of reformers named American Promise has been urging a constitutional amendment that would strengthen the role of Congress and the states in regulating election methods and finance.
Mark Montieth: Naming sports facilities is all the rage. What happens, though, when colleges run out of available real estate?
When attaching a name to something is done as an honor, it makes people happy.
Barb Cutillo: We all have stress, but bad managers create anxiety
To meet or exceed goals, managers must motivate the talented employees to accomplish the work on time and under budget.
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: The value proposition for social media is its users
In some ways, social media platforms are unlike traditional media platforms, such as radio and television. In other ways, they are very similar.
Pete the planner: Complexity is the measure for needing a tax preparer
If you’ve got investment income, especially anything involving capital gains, tax-loss harvesting or the wild world of cryptocurrency, you might want someone who understands the tax code better than you do.
Hunter Jones: Unleashing free market is best for energy production
At the heart of conservative values is the principle that individuals have the right to use their property as they see fit. That principle isn’t just a talking point; it’s fundamental to who we are as Americans.
Mickey Levitan: The DEI that should go is the performative variety
Poorly conceived and executed training programs were touted as enlightened efforts to redress longstanding inequities. Instead, they seemed to divide us into either oppressors or oppressed.
Emmy Hildebrand: Charitable gambling helps many but needs an upgrade
Electronic pull tabs—or e-tabs—offer a modern, efficient and appealing way to raise funds while maintaining the integrity and purpose of charitable gambling.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: Mastering collaboration requires sense of trust
As a leader or manager, how can you use key elements of collaboration, including trust-building, conflict resolution and psychological safety to help your teams thrive?
Cecil Bohanon and John Horowitz: Climbing rate of inflation suggests interest rates cuts in 2025 unlikely
Of course, all economic data is flawed, so the CPI statistics might be a fluke.